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Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#8541 closed defect (bug) (fixed)

Don’t use Lucida Sans. It only has Latin-1

Reported by: demetris's profile demetris Owned by:
Milestone: 2.7 Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 2.7
Component: UI Keywords: has-patch
Focuses: Cc:

Description

Lucida Sans only has Latin-1 and 242 glyphs. The first proper Windows font in the admin stylesheets, Verdana, has 913 glyphs and also supports Greek and Cyrillic.

Since Lucida Sans is before Verdana in the stylesheet, and since Lucida Sans is not uncommon on Windows systems, in the Greek interface I see blocks of text in mixed fonts. For example, pieces like this one, from Reading Settings:

Η κωδικοσελίδα του ιστολογίου σας (συνιστούμε UTF-8)

I suppose the same will be the case in languages that use the Cyrillic alphabet.

Also, the colour of these descriptions (#999) is too light, even for extraneous or unimportant information, which “.setting-description” pieces are not.

I’m submitting a patch that removes Lucida Sans instances, changes the #999 of some classes to #666, and also moves a Bitstream Vera Sans that had been left before Verdana.

PS. Lucida Sans has another problem in Greek text: it includes one single Greek character (pi), which appears in Greek text in the midst of the glyphs of the first fallback font producing a sight singularly ugly! Seriously! :-)

Attachments (1)

lucida-sans-999.diff (2.4 KB) - added by demetris 16 years ago.
Remove Lucida Sans instances, recolours some classes from 999 to 666, moves a stray Bitstream Vera Sans

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Change History (2)

@demetris
16 years ago

Remove Lucida Sans instances, recolours some classes from 999 to 666, moves a stray Bitstream Vera Sans

#1 @ryan
16 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

(In [10152]) Remove Lucida San. Props demetris. fixes #8541

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